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5 Last update: 2004-12-20 tlh
15 - gen_init_cpio, a program that builds a cpio-format archive
18 - initramfs, a chunk of code that unpacks the compressed cpio image
19   midway through the kernel boot process.
20 - klibc, a userspace C library, currently packaged separately, that is
23 The cpio file format used by initramfs is the "newc" (aka "cpio -H newc")
24 format, and is documented in the file "buffer-format.txt".  There are
29 CPIO ARCHIVE method
30 -------------------
38 IMAGE BUILDING method
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42 source parts rather than supplying a cpio archive.  This method provides
43 a way to create images with root-owned files even though the image was
47 CONFIG_INITRAMFS_SOURCE.  Sources can be either directories or files -
58 usr/gen_init_cpio utility (run 'usr/gen_init_cpio -h' to get the
64 can create a 'root-image' directory and install all files into it.
65 Because device-special files cannot be created by a unprivileged user,
66 special files can be listed in a 'root-files' file.  Both 'root-image'
67 and 'root-files' can be listed in CONFIG_INITRAMFS_SOURCE and a complete
82 See also 'usr/gen_initramfs.sh -h'.
100 - ipconfig, a program that configures network interfaces.  It can
103 - nfsmount, a program that can mount an NFS filesystem.
104 - kinit, the "glue" that uses ipconfig and nfsmount to replace the old
106   system boot using that filesystem as root.
113 - Almost all of init/do_mounts* (the beginning of this is already in
115 - ACPI table parsing
116 - Insert unwieldy subsystem that doesn't really need to be in kernel
120 the klibc distribution includes a small Bourne-compatible shell (ash)